tjogin

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by tjogin 17y ago
Unlike the non-functioning spam-filters you speak of, the AppStore approval process actually has a flawless record of keeping it out. Now, I'm not saying that's squarely because of the diligence of the reviewers. Most likely, it's just as m
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by tjogin 17y ago
> The iphone just got a bit more difficult. And a bit more dangerous. Malware lies not far down this path. I think Apple is even more concerned with malware than they are with the difficulty part.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Photoshop is to design as a text editor is to coding. That's the tool you use to get it done, but it's says nothing about the talent you need to do a good job.
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by tjogin 17y ago
NoSQL isn't the default storage option. It is a storage option. NoSQL means this: "Hold your horses, are you sure SQL is the right option for storing that? There are other options." In any debate, extremist views will tend to get heard as
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by tjogin 17y ago
I agree that if all you know about NoSQL is the term, and nothing else, then you are likely to not understand what it actually means. But then again, why would you engage in a discussion about something you know nothing about?
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by tjogin 17y ago
It doesn't mean to never use SQL, nor that SQL is bad — it means to widen your horizons; to not immediately assume that whatever you want to store, the best way to do that must without a doubt be in an RDBMS. For years now, people have
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by tjogin 17y ago
Gruber isn't non-critical of Apple's iPhone business either. He has consistently criticized them for how they're managing the AppStore, for instance. However, because he also has deep insight into Apple's business and culture (probably bett
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by tjogin 17y ago
Their customers don't all want the same thing, so they can't "do what their customers want", even if they wanted to. What they can't do is only whatever would cause massive amounts of customers to stop using their products.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Gruber isn't as uncritical of Apple as you claim, you should probably read more of what it is he has to say, and assume less.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Right. But, if you are sensitive to privacy issues (which seems sound), you're not likely to have an exhaustively filled out Facebook profile either way. So, if you have a sparingly filled out Facebook profile, what is the risk involved usi
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'd love to just take your word for it, but for the sake of the discussion, would you please expand a bit on what "CIA level" information you can retrieve using the Facebook API? To begin with, what can you find out about a person after the
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by tjogin 17y ago
Right, and I'm wondering which ones. My view of the Facebook API is that it isn't exactly a gold mine of personal information. I'm wondering what part of it is it that freaks people out.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Seriously, what kind of consequences are you afraid of when logging in with your Facebook account? Have you looked at the Facebook API? I've produced a website where you can either create a "normal" account by supplying your email address,
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by tjogin 17y ago
You get what you pay for. It's not the economy that is false — what is false is your expectations of what you can get for about one hour of a professional's time.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Yeah, it was horrible. Imagine what it would do to a child to be brought up in an environment that cold and unresponsive. :-(
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by tjogin 17y ago
Is not "inquiry" and "enquiry" identical in all respects except spelling?
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by tjogin 17y ago
This is a great resource. A lot of the time, questions in #rubyonrails on Freenode are answered with a link to one of these guides. I think it also helps to think of Rails' code as having conventions , rather than magic. The conventions ar
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by tjogin 17y ago
Tim Bray cites a pretty good example; compare and contrast one-click shopping with PGP. One is a broad concept that needs no further explanation in order to be implemented by a seasoned developer — the other is a genius implementation that
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by tjogin 17y ago
Very insightful, it shines a different light on the spirit with which these filings were made. One thing that's hard to see in a different light though, is how angry Steve Jobs sounds in his quote.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Graphic concepts too vague to even claim copyright of are not equal to patents . Not saying that makes this right on Apple's part, just saying it's a world of difference.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Are you saying that shareholders are twisting Steve Jobs' arm, forcing him to sue HTC? My humble guess is that Steve Jobs would, in fact, not have been thrown ass-first out of Apple had he not. Apple did this because they wanted to, not b
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by tjogin 17y ago
Becoming a gymnast is not a realistic way of adding muscle mass, unless this epiphany strikes you at about the age of seven. Even if you do decide to go the gymnast route, you'll still be lifting weights (though not until you've been at it
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by tjogin 17y ago
It also changes what muscles you are exercising. A 100% inclined pushup works your shoulders significantly more than your chest, while a normal pushup exercises your chest more. It makes it a completely different exercise altogether — the
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by tjogin 17y ago
And when you've developed the strength to do that, how do you increase the resistance (and how do you develop the strength when you can't even do a single pushup like that)? It's well established science that you should be doing about 5-1
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by tjogin 17y ago
Gymnasts are not at all as efficient about building muscle mass as body builders are. Gymnasts achieve great physical results in time, but nowhere near as efficiently as body builders do. This should not come as a surprise to anyone — for g
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by tjogin 17y ago
The main activity that makes your body gain muscle is to subject it to exceptional amounts of work — that is to say, a lot more work than it is used to (combined with the intake of the necessary fuel to facilitate it). It should be reason
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's well established science that cardio has a net negative effect on muscle gain.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm not sure what the law is called (something about electronic bulletin boards if memory serves me right), but the gist of it is to protect website owners from this very thing; having to vet every content uploaded by individual users. It w
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't really mind describing myself as a pirate. They need to come up with a label that stings. "Thief" works better, but unfortunately also makes it obvious that it's just bullshit.
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by tjogin 17y ago
What do you even mean by that? I mean, even try to visualize the alternative; that every video, picture, audio clip and piece of text submitted to any website is first vetted by a human being. Any content that that individual cannot get b

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